ALMUTEMMercury in House 3
Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. House 3 is the house of the everyday and the close at hand: brothers and sisters, neighbours, short journeys and practical learning. It's the stuff of daily life — the conversations and the first lessons in things.
The third house — of siblings and near kin, neighbours, short journeys, and practical learning — is a most proper domain of Mercury, lord of communication and daily dealing; though cadent, the planet of mind is here as if at home and gives its best. It inclines toward a lively, curious, and deft spirit in daily life, toward good relations and much talk with siblings and neighbours, and toward a taste and a knack for reading, writing, learning, and teaching; short journeys tend to be frequent, profitable, and tied to business or study. Dignified in its sign, it gives a talent for letters, dealing, and commerce, and close and complicit siblings; afflicted, it sours into gossip, quarrels over words, and a restless mind that scatters without settling.